According to recent BBC reports, North Korea has launched an
intensive media assaulton its latest arch enemy - the wrong haircut.
A campaign exhorting men to get a proper short-back-and-sides has
been aired by state-run Pyongyang television. Pyongyang television
started the campaign last autumn with a five-part series in its regular
TV Common Sense programme. Stressing hygiene and health, it
showed various state-approved short hairstyles including the
"flat-top crew cut," "middle hairstyle," "low hairstyle", and
"high hairstyle" - variations from one to five centimetres in length.
It stressed the "negative effects" of long hair on "human intelligence
development", noting that long hair "consumes a great deal of
nutrition" and could thus rob the brain of energy. Men should
get a haircut every 15 days, it recommended.
A second, and unprecedented, TV series this winter showed
hidden-camera style video of "long-haired" men in various
locations throughout Pyongyang. In a break with North
Korean TV's usual approach, the programme gave their names
and addresses, and challenged the fashion victims directly
over their appearance.
Tidy attire "is important in repelling the enemies' manoeuvres
to infiltrate corrupt capitalist ideas and lifestyle andestablishing
the socialist lifestyle of the military-first era," the radio says.
Newspapers too highlight the civic advantages of short hair
and smart shoes.
Ohhh that Kim Jung Il always seemed like such a nice boy!
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